Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "euronews" channel.

  1. Oh they have what they wanted: The Pound has going down 5 Cents in the last days. Someone is making millions while we speculate about the reasons.
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  2. Another distraction to distract from the disastrous U-turn / hindsight governing by the Johnson government and the extreme failings of Johnson on PMQ's last week. Maybe even something is up for next week. Next week is another round of EU trade deal negotiations. The 2nd last chance before the dealine in October. No results are expected from the talks and the Johnson government desperatly needs to divert attention from that. On top of that the Furlough Scheme will be on the agenda next week and the intention of the government to let it run out. It will be even more damaging to Johnson than the Corona-handling and I bet UK's Corona numbers are also on the rise again, why should UK be an exception to the rest of Europe. So yes, Johnson desperatly needs a distraction from those topics and what better way to make immigration a topic again (it's the 3rd time it was used to divert attention from bad government decissions in the last weeks).
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  3. The EU would like to help, but they can't. It's a sovereignty matter treaties prevent influence of the EU level to this degree. Noone was willing to give the EU this many rights to a member even if it would be better for freedom and less corruption. Maybe the EU can tweak a little on finances or something, but the measures are extremly limited. Next time somebody questions if the EU should have more protective rights on such matters to allow the EU to protect member from their own rogue governments, vote YES. The best approach would be to vote in another government and try to suggest something like that in the EU.
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  4. Strange. Farage promised a Switzerland-deal, others Norway, some Canada, Canda+, Canada++ some said with the Single Market, some with Customs Union but not Single Market, some No-Deal. It seems there were at least 5 different variations of Brexit, but only one variation of Remain. And I can clearly remember there was no "No-Deal" even mentioned on the Ballot-paper.
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  5. ​ @mark.k7206  The UK needs imports of resources and components to keep manufacturing going. Not to speak of food, medicine and chemicals, oil products and petroleum mostly imported from the EU. All getting more expensive. But the worst part a weaker pounds makes buying UK properties and companies more cheaper. And shortselling the pound drains the UK economy of money which is not coming back again. Under the line the advantages are not offsetting the high import costs. And the border is not even active yet, which makes is even more costly Free Trade deal or not. And if it ends up to be No-Deal, well than 772 bn worth of trade every year going from 0% tariff to EU and UK WTO tariffs regime between 2 and 40%. Congrats on economically sanction yourself. Have I mentioned soon needed paperwork for import/export permit, security declarations, Rules of Origin? Well, what could possibly go wrong right?
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  6. The UK left 6 months ago and is not a member anymore. So no this right is gone.
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  7. It's even worse than that. It's a clandestine attempt by the government to take power and giving them provisions to even be above the law. It's a testballon of Whitehall to look how far they can go to grab domestic powers away from the legislative and judiciary. However it's well hidden with the taint of Brexit in the hopes noone notices the issue and because of Brexit even welcoming it.
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  8.  @bendouglas5607  2007: 1£ = 1.99$ 2008: 1.45$ 2016: 1.54$ 2020: 1.16$ Don't kid me here. The pounds almost lost 50% in 15 years.
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  9. What's the saying: The best go first.
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  10. Not true. Everytime you trade with someone, you agree that your products fullfill the trade partners conditions. The EU asks for nothing else. The same is true for the reverse. Of course the EU will respect all rules and standards the UK wants on the products the EU sells. This is standard practise for over 100 years. A little more difficult it gets when you talk about a Free Trade Deals, when the trade is not limited to specific products but allow everything in the country. In this case more rules are necesarry. For the EU this means the Level Playing Field without it there can be no Free Trade. The EU can't say anything else because EU's 27 countries and the 100 countries the EU trades with do exports with the EU on this condition. And even more difficult it gets, when you have more than Free Trade a shared market, e.g. the Single Market which UK enjoyed for 40 years. It requies more rules and more policies and a political body to make those rules and a body to enforce these rules a shared court like the ECJ. This is what Brexiteers never understood. EU Membership was not Free Trade, it was Free Trade++.
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  11. There will be no last minute Free Trade Deal. Maybe a last minute barebone deal for some products both want to trade, but the border will come, the paperwork, checks, tariffs, CE product certifiction, Certification for Rules of Origin, longer times to pass the channel in both directions all of it. Even a Free Trade Deal will make this necesarry the only thing not in there would be limits, quotas and tariffs but all the rest of it. And when people say "last time they were able to come up with something weeks before" should realize: The WA was a deal which was formerly going through the hole process of approval. May's deal. Johnson just changed a little bit regarding NI and the Backstop. But it was a ready deal more or less. However in this case: The EU has what it legally needed: A clean exit of UK from the EU and a legal solution for the GFA. And even managed to get the outstanding debt back and a little extra for their troubles. This time there is nothing not even a proposal from the UK. And the UK is not even willing to agree to the minimum conditions of the EU (CFP, Level Playing Field and ECJ to enforce the trade deal). And the clock is ticking. The EU can pull back from negotiations without unfixable consequences and preparing for this step for years now. For the UK it looks a lot worse. At the same time the UK clearly indicates to break promisses (Political declaration), agreements e.g. Common Fishing Policy and now even talk about reopening the WA again. Prepare to lower import standards (Trade Bill, Agricultural Bill) and and to top it all of: Negotiations with the US requiring lowering of standards and divergence from the EU. All signs are on red for the EU. And a little remark to the Brexiteers: Contrary to what your channels are telling you the Withdrawal Agreement of Johnson will not end on Dec-31 only the transition period which is tiny part of it. And it will not be replaced with nothing when no trade deal is reached. Trade deal and Withdrawal Agreement are seperate things and the latter is already UK and international law and will stay with or without a Trade Deal.
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  12. Not a bad idea actually an incentive to stick to the rules. The Rule of Law is nothing partisan to any party or even any type of nation it's something so fundamentally important to any state which wants to stick to democracy. Only countries seeking another political form want the rule of law diminished or at least tighly controlled by influence on judges and on legislation at the same time. A country not upholding this and seeking to undermine the rule of law or the independency of the judiciary should not be allowed to be an EU member and should be financially severly punished or even should be forced to leave the EU. It even stands to reason if trade deals should include this rule to prevent countries earning money with the EU but supress the rule of law and indepency of judiciary so only law-abiding countries are awarded trade benefits from the EU Single Market. The next think is the veto vs. 2/3 majority rule. UK proved it last year before the final leave date. A single EU member or even two in pairs (Hungary + Poland) should not be enough to veto a decission anymore we need something else a 2/3 or 3/4 rule so there is still a clear majority but also not the possibility to take all of Europe hostage to the whims of a single country be it Hungary, Poland, France or Germany alone.
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  13. This has nothing to do with this topic.
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  14. Does the EU trade money or goods? Always this obsession with trade deficits. With the Euro there wouldn't even be a trade deficit.
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  15.  M. Olsen.  You misunderstood this: EU's conditions are like this: For all products you sell to the EU ... - You must pay your worker at least x £ / hours or you can't trade with us. - You're workers cannot work more than 9 hours per day. - You're workers must not work more than 6 days per week. Or: - You cannot use chemical xyz in your process because it's cancerous. - You cannot use productions methods which creates more than x amount of CO2. etc Is that really a problem for you? It may be a problem for your boss, but not for you.
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  16.  SMEGY 89  There is a flaw in your argumentation. Those immigrants you refering to were partly in the UK based on Freedom of Movement and therefore already had a different citizenship and can easily move to every other EU country because those countries still have this law in place just not the UK anymore in 5 months. The people now requesting citizenship in the EU are people who formerly not had a foreign citizenship but now want to have one before the time runs out at the end of transition period. In other words native UK citizens. I can only speculate about their reasons, but two scenarios are highly likely: They seeing what's now coming to the UK. So they are either Remainers who already know what's about to come or Leavers who prefer to have an insurance in case the Remainer indeed are right or worse knew all the time what would be waiting. Both seem not be willing to go through what's waiting for the UK next year or have enough of this Johnson government devestating Corona policy and not want to live through a 2nd wave. Maybe both. And since it needs a certain level of maturity to either realize what's coming or want an insurance I'm pretty sure those are some of the more clever ones now applying for EU citizenship. So I stand by my initial comment: The best go first.
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  17.  @adiadindas  Maybe that's because there is an Ocean between the EU and Canada, Japan, 2 even to South Korea. And if you check the trade deals for Japan and Canada you will find the ECJ and the Level Playing Field in there but I guess you never cared to look.
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  18.  @davidmorris3682  That Corbyn is unelectable.
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  19. Better ask Australia and Canada first if they are willing to resume british Imperialism.
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  20. You don't want to leave it's more like it ... but I admit Brexiteers will need a while before realizing this.
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  21.  @drewhodge3820  Alright. Than WTO it is. Let me give you a last advice: Make sure all your standpoints are actually true, or you're in for a rough awakening by reality.
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  22. They can't 36 trade deals, the EU treaties and 27 countries preventing Barnier to drop those red lines. No matter how much the UK tries to threaten, no matter how bad the damage to the EU trade is (maximum -8% exports) those red lines would endanger the Single Market and the 36 trade deals ... to be blunt the UK is just not important enough for this.
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  23. It's expected even if this Bill passes both Houses in Parliament and getting royal assent that the Supreme Court will smash it because it's against constitutional laws in the UK allowing government to be above the law.
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  24.  @bendouglas5607  WA is already binding law (for all binding sections). So no it will not disappear. And do you know why: Because the political declaration is not legally binding :))))) You should be careful the PD is a double edged sword. But be it as it may be: The PD is also just one section of the WA. The WA remains active deal or not even past Dec-31.
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  25.  mad Rascal  It contains provisions that allows the government to be above the law. Parliament or not if they pass laws which break existing constitutional laws the courts will rule against it.
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  26. However UK citizens can apply for citizenship like everybody else.
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  27.  mad Rascal  The issue is they contest the Rule of Law itself allowing the government to be above the law. The Parliament would have to ammend the rule that noone is above the law. Do you really believe this will not raise some eyebrows? Only than they can pass the new bill without getting resistence by the courts.
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  28.  @Shuforces1  You are right I don't know Bulgaria very much. But I know the EU rather good. Merkel is not in control of the EU nor is Germany or France or Macron. The issue is: The EU sends funds directly to EU projects but also to the governments of each EU member. And they are responsible to distribute the money. It's not a problem of the EU if they embezzle money, it's a problem of the member and the voters in this country allowing such a government. The EU is by treaties forced to send money which is intended for regional development, health, education, etc. But the EU has no right to keep the money because it's embezzled by the members government. Solve the problem by voting a non-corrupt government. The only way possible to improve the situation is to change from within. It's a democracy after all. Go on strike, make protests, create a new opposition party whatever, but the citizens of Bulgaria must change it from within the EU cannot intervene international laws and treaties preventing such a thing. As I understand it the EU will put this topic on the agenda in this autumn because Hungary has the same problem and the EU countries needs to find a solution for this e.g. suspend payments temporarily with corruption existing. I'm intrestested myself in what they will come up with. But whatever it is, true change cannot come from the EU it must come from within the member.
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  29.  @bendouglas5607  EU GDP numbers for Q2 2020 were just released -12.1% not 25. Germany -10.1%, America -10%. NL is expected -12.x% And UK? Noone knows. Johnson is too afraid to release them.
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  30.  @MILANBELGRADEBOYS  Rubbish. The EU uses what they are allowed to legally, the difference is Bulgaria is a full EU member, Belarus is only a trade partner. The EU can apply sanctions on a Non-EU member this is not possible for members. For Belarus the EU could for example stop buying their Potassium, #1 export good which would hurt Lukashenko a lot. However the EU uses tariffs and sanctions like a scalpel not a club because trade sanctions can hurt normal people more than the governments. However the EU has gotten quite good at this getting a lot of experience with wanne-be dictators like Putin, Erdogan, Trump.
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  31. The UK will attack it with the Supreme Court on account of being Non-Constitutional and the EU will attack it with the ECJ if necesarry on accounts of breach of treaty.
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  32. No-Deal will do that on it's own. Please go ahead with it.
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  33.  @carolwright4970  Fair enough. It's law nevertheless. It's domestic law because there is a Bill for it and it's international law because there is a binding agreement with the EU.
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  34.  Robert Cawley  I don't like Corbyn. What's wrong with fair wages? Or prevent overworking? Or block cancerous chemicals?
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  35.  @ceramicusplus3494  True Brexit cost a lot already and it needs to be really really good. It's not even finished and the costs reaching 200 bn £ this year and 5 years are wasted already. And if the financial sector is really happy is one the fence. London lost doing services for EU companies across the hole of the EU already. Euro Clearance is on backburner since the EU will pull this lucrative bussinness into their jurisdiction as soon as they have their systems up.
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  36.  Robert Cawley  Being?
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  37.  @ceramicusplus3494  The EU is living with wealth differences for 50 years now I think they can manage and one after another finally seeing small improvements. Greece for example had the largest growth in the EU last year. In any case. The EU would very much like to have what you said. But this is impossible as long as the UK denying even the minimum conditions to make this work. And at the same time indicating to want to diverge from EU standards. And since the EU has no issues with heigher standards the only problem they have are lower standards they expecting the UK to intend to lower the standards. And surprise the US Free Trade Deal needs lower standards. So not looking good on this front. And since the UK can't even agree to the minimum the EU needs to legally continue with what is currently possible the border will be continued to be build and rights removed and freedom in crossing this border diminished ... in both directions.
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  38.  Anthony Burke  The Withdrawal Agreement is not ending in 4 months, despite what Brexit media was telling you. Only one tiny part of it is ending, the transition period. However there is a provision that any legal disputes now occuring during the transition period remains in the ECJ jurisdiction for at least 4 years. So even if the transition period is ending. The ECJ will continue to handle disputes occuring THIS year and breaches of the Withdrawal Agreement itself indefinitly.
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  39.  Anthony Burke  Wrong. The ECJ has jurisdiction for 4 years even after transition end.
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  40.  @1066BooBoy  Hardly you just need to understand it properly ... for a longer while I was like you a little Eurosceptic but the more I read myself into all the details the more I liked it. It took me almost a year now to come to the knowledge-level I now have, but I can see the genius behind it now, it's the bussiness model of the 21th century with all the good stuff from capitalism and socialism without the bad stuff.
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  41. Almost 153 days or so. But cutting of the largest trade partner for both imports and exports has it's side effects.
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  42. 27 different governments and a shared parliament not quite constitutes as dictatorship. Besides that the EU has the highest standards on this planet some of it's members have even higher standards than the shared EU standard. To maintain this standard they made a simple rule: Either you play after the rules those 27 countries play or you don't play.
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  43.  @kebjenkins  Sorry, but I've seen all the rumors and started to check them for myself over 11 months. I read treaties, articles, websites followed parliamentary sessions. They are all a lie or only half-true meaning still a lie. And during those 11 months I learned so much about the EU and it's inner workings that I can say the EU is as far away from what you mentioned in your comment as somehow possible. The hole stucture is build to prevent exactly that. And I understand now why the real globalists try to do everything they can to damage the EU and break it apart because the can't get the EU under their control anymore and it started to get a problem for them and interfereing in their profiteering and exploitation. And you fool fell for the real globalists, their misinformation, false promises and even actively helping every day by spreading the lies on social media. And they somehow made you belief you actually helping your country and your own future while doing exactly the opposit of it and playing directly into the globalists hands.
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  44. Immigration has nothing to do with it. And Freedom of Movement is over anyway in less than 4 months. Doesn't matter really. Non-EU immigration has exploded in the meanwhile so the only thing which changes are there will be other immigrants not from the EU.
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  45. You better check who exactly it selling you this snakeoil.
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  46. Blame the Tories because they cut spending and forgot to turn Austerity off again. Blame the Tories for allowing low wage workers into the country and even helped and encouraged them. The UK could have closed it's borders for immigrants like Hungary but UK didn't because they wanted low wage. There is no EU rule which prevents a member from closing it's borders I think Corona should made this clear when EU members closed their border completly to neighbours. And the UK wasn't even in the Schengen agreement which really has open borders and no checks. UK always had controls and passport checks at the border ... and still let everyone in.
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  47.  @1066BooBoy  First of all: It's 1.75 tn Euros that is even less in £ (~1.57 trillion £). And 1 tn of it is the normal 7 year budget of which UK part would have been 60 bn £ over 7 years (8.9bn x 7). Just for comparison the yearly health budget of the UK is 178 bn £. The year debt intrest is 55 bn £. So we are down to 750 bn. Well of this sum everyone get's a share there are not only costs. It's money shared and money payed back. The repayment plan is already there. Where are UK's repayment plans? Or recovery package? And how large is it? And all debt I guess?
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  48.  @maximusmeridius1240  The moon is made of moon. - James O'Brien
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  49. How many lorries drive between Canada and the EU every day? If you can answer this question you find out why Canada Deal doesn't work on the UK.
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  50. Legally the UK could start negotiating trade deals since invoking article 50 in March 2017 and had there were some meeting with the US in that time. But 2 years long Northern Ireland was like a big roadblock. Leavers underestimated that this british problem would be making such a big issue but noone cared to look before. The 2nd problem was, was everybody wanted a different form of Brexit. With Single Market, without it, with Customs Union, Switzerland, Norway, Canada, No Deal, there were soo many variations and for 2 years the Leave groups sabotaged each other to get what they wanted. Johnson for example voted 2 times against a deal. The 3rd problem was that Free Trade with the EU and Free Trade with the US at the same time is not possible because of different standards. And the Vote-Leave people want an US trade, while others don't wanted to lose 51% imports and 43% exports with the EU. The 4th issue is, that the UK could not start to talk about trade before the Withdrawal of the UK was completed. Because the Withdrawal Agreement set on which date the UK stopped being a member, if the UK would stay in the Single Market and Customs Union or not, if there is a transition period or not and how long and the 1st problem with NI was solved in this. So the actual trade deal talks with the EU started this year. And because of problem 3 nothing is currently moving. The Johnson Vote Leave government don't want a Free Trade Deal with the EU because it would made a Free Trade Deal with the US impossible.
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